Are there economies of scale in banking? To put it simply, no, at least from an expense standpoint, as demonstrated below. The first chart ranks the 536 publicly traded U.S. banks and thrifts in ...

A scale model is a representation or copy of an object that is larger or smaller than the actual size of the object being represented. Very often the scale model is smaller than the original and used ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

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